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As business of Alibaba expands across the world among various industries, higher standards are imposed on the service quality and reliability of big data cloud computing platforms which constitute the infrastructure of Alibaba Cloud.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Yingying Zhang , Zhengxiong Guan , Huajie Qian , Leili Xu , Hengbo Liu , Qingsong Wen , Liang Sun , Junwei Jiang , Lunting Fan , Min Ke

The task of root cause analysis (RCA) is to identify the root causes of system faults/failures by analyzing system monitoring data. Efficient RCA can greatly accelerate system failure recovery and mitigate system damages or financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dongjie Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Yanjie Fu , Yanchi Liu , Haifeng Chen

To keep modern Radio Access Networks (RAN) running smoothly, operators need to spot the real-world triggers behind Service-Level Agreement (SLA) breaches well before customers feel them. We introduce an AI/ML pipeline that does two things…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chenhua Shi , Joji Philip , Subhadip Bandyopadhyay , Jayanta Choudhury

The active growth and dynamic nature of cellular networks makes network troubleshooting challenging. Identification of network problems leveraging on machine learning has gained a lot of visibility in the past few years, resulting in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Mohamed Moulay , Rafael Garcia Leiva , Pablo J. Rojo Maroni , Vincenzo Mancuso , Antonio Fernandez Anta , Ali Safari Khatouni

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in mobile networks remains a challenging task due to the need for interpretability, domain expertise, and causal reasoning. In this work, we propose a lightweight framework that leverages Large Language Models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Mohamed Sana , Nicola Piovesan , Antonio De Domenico , Yibin Kang , Haozhe Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Fadhel Ayed

Root cause analysis (RCA) in networked industrial systems, such as supply chains and power networks, is notoriously difficult due to unknown and dynamically evolving interdependencies among geographically distributed clients. These clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Ayush Mohanty , Paritosh Ramanan , Nagi Gebraeel

Diagnosing problems in Internet-scale services remains particularly difficult and costly for both content providers and ISPs. Because the Internet is decentralized, the cause of such problems might lie anywhere between an end-user's device…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Loïck Bonniot , Christoph Neumann , François Taïani

This paper studies the problem of identifying the contagion source when partial timestamps of a contagion process are available. We formulate the source localization problem as a ranking problem on graphs, where infected nodes are ranked…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Kai Zhu , Zhen Chen , Lei Ying

While cloud-native microservice architectures have revolutionized software development, their inherent operational complexity makes failure Root Cause Analysis (RCA) a critical yet challenging task. Numerous data-driven RCA models have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Aoyang Fang , Songhan Zhang , Yifan Yang , Haotong Wu , Junjielong Xu , Xuyang Wang , Rui Wang , Manyi Wang , Qisheng Lu , Pinjia He

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is becoming ever more critical as modern systems grow in complexity, volume of data, and interdependencies. While traditional RCA methods frequently rely on correlation-based or rule-based techniques, these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ahmed Dawoud , Shravan Talupula

Root cause analysis (RCA) is essential for diagnosing failures within complex software systems to ensure system reliability. The highly distributed and interdependent nature of modern cloud-based systems often complicates RCA efforts,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Evelien Riddell , James Riddell , Gengyi Sun , Michał Antkiewicz , Krzysztof Czarnecki

The complex dependencies and propagative faults inherent in microservices, characterized by a dense network of interconnected services, pose significant challenges in identifying the underlying causes of issues. Prompt identification and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Tingting Wang , Guilin Qi

We propose a novel and efficient method, that we shall call TopRank in the following paper, for detecting change-points in high-dimensional data. This issue is of growing concern to the network security community since network anomalies…

Applications · Statistics 2009-08-18 Céline Lévy-Leduc , François Roueff

The recent advances in network management automation and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) are easing network policy management tasks. At the same time, these new technologies create a new mode of failure in the management cycle itself.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Praveen Tammana , Chandra Nagarajan , Pavan Mamillapalli , Ramana Rao Kompella , Myungjin Lee

Fault localization is an imperative method in fault tolerance in a distributed environment that designs a blueprint for continuing the ongoing process even when one or many modules are non-functional. Visualizing a distributed environment…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Narayanaa S R , Sivaranjan M , Lekshmi R S

We address the problem of timing-based localization in wireless networks, when an unknown fraction of data is corrupted by nonideal signal conditions. While timing-based techniques enable accurate localization, they are also sensitive to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Muhammad Osama , Dave Zachariah , Satyam Dwivedi , Petre Stoica

The goal of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is to explain why an anomaly occurred by identifying where the fault originated. Several recent works model the anomalous event as resulting from a change in the causal mechanism at the root cause,…

Edge computing environments host increasingly complex microservice-based IoT applications that are prone to performance anomalies propagating across dependent services. Identifying the faulty component (root cause localization) and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Duneesha Fernando , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a crucial aspect of incident management in large-scale cloud services. While the term root cause analysis or RCA has been widely used, different studies formulate the task differently. This is because the term…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Aoyang Fang , Haowen Yang , Haoze Dong , Qisheng Lu , Junjielong Xu , Pinjia He

An important challenge in big data analysis nowadays is detection of cohesive groups in large-scale networks, including social networks, genetic networks, communication networks and so. In this paper, we propose LabelRank, an efficient…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Jierui Xie , Boleslaw K. Szymanski